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As much as we try to anticipate the future of marketing, it always feels like our buyers are one step ahead of us. And while we’ve been busy trend-chasing, let’s be honest, our marketing hasn’t really changed all that much. It’s time to break free of traditional tactics and technologies, and reimagine engagement for the digital-first world.
Attend “Marketing Breakthroughs 2021,” a two-hour virtual event where some of the most cutting-edge marketing companies will help you break out of the old marketing habits that are standing between you and your 2021 revenue goals.
During this event you’ll have the opportunity to:
- Hear from digital marketing expert Ann Handley on creating marketing magic that gets real-world results
- Hear from leading martech companies on how to leverage the latest tools to turn your prospects into sales conversations
- Choose from eight breakout sessions covering every marketing function, from demand generation to ABM and beyond
It’s time to start setting trends, not chasing them.
Sessions will be presented in English and simultaneously-translated in to:
- French
- German
- Spanish
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Agenda
Opening Keynote
The Art of Storytelling: Telling True Stories Well
Stop me if you’ve heard this: “Humans are hardwired for stories.” Or: “Storytelling is the new marketing.”
But what does that really mean? How does something squishy like “story” drive real business success? And how can you use your brand stories to connect with customers, grow your business, do work you love?
To succeed with content marketing now and the years to come, we need to rethink our foundational stories based on a new framework for 2021. And critically: We need to think how we tell them. (Hint: There are four vital factors.)
In this lively, high-energy talk, master storyteller Ann Handley will educate you, inspire you, and leave you ready to tell stories that pack awallop. She’ll show Marketing Breakthroughs 2021 superstars (that’s you!) how to tell stories that both nurture new customers and nourish the ones you already have.
You’ll learn:
– Why Storytelling is the brilliant marketer’s best maneuver
– The Four Factors of Storytelling Success that you need to craft the very best customer experiences
– How other organizations are succeeding with storytelling
– BONUS: A specific template you can use to tell your own brand story
Let’s demystify Storytelling together in this lively and enlightening talk by the World’s First Chief Content Officer herself! Who’s in?
The Art of Storytelling: Telling True Stories Well
Ann Handley
Chief Content Officer, MarketingProfs
Marketing Breakthroughs: Content
#Ghosted: How To Engage and Convert the Silent, the No-Shows, and the Unreachable
We’ve all seen it. A lead or account signs up to a webinar, downloads a ton of resources and it looks like they’re really interested in you. But when it comes to attending an event or taking that first call with an SDR – they ghost you. It sucks. So how can we engage these no shows – or at least try and figure out who’s serious and who’s wasting our time? In this session we’ll explore:
- Why you need to differentiate between marketer-defined engagement and engagement that means a lead is ready for a conversion.
- How to re-engage no shows with diverse content, formats and channels.
- Balancing the need of your buyer to work on their terms vs. your need to know if they are ever going to buy.
- Tips, tricks and actions to take with no shows to make your pipeline stronger and more reliable.
Speakers
Vidyard, Netline
Marketing Breakthroughs: Content
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Marketing Breakthroughs: Demand Generation
How to Use Webinars to Supercharge Your Demand Gen
Webinars and online events have exploded in the past couple of years. Even before 2020, research by SiriusDecisions found that webinars were the highest-rated human touchpoint for buyers. However, even though on-demand viewing is moving towards becoming the most popular method of webinar engagement, many marketers still plan their webinars in a one-off fashion, limiting success and reducing efficiency. So how can marketers plan an efficient and scalable webinar series that continually adds to the pipeline in the most effective way? In this session we’ll explore:
- The types of webinar and online events that are easy to scale
- How to identify your target audience and their needs based on their buying journey
- How to repurpose and reactivate your webinars so a single recording pays off several times over
- How to use engagement data and other KPIs to continually improve the success of your webinars over time
Speakers
LeadScale, Adobe
Marketing Breakthroughs: Demand Generation
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Marketing Breakthroughs: Digital Experiences
Getting Face-to-Face in 2021: Creating Human Engagement in a Digital World
Building virtual events that get attendees through the digital door is one thing. But creating experiences that truly engage audiences and spark human conversations takes a certain je ne sais quoi. Chief Nation and ON24’s VP of Marketing, Tessa Barron will break down what it takes to facilitate authentic, human connections in a virtual event space. They’ll exchange success stories, answer audience questions in real time, and share examples of how leading brands are bringing the human touch into a digital world. In this session you’ll get ideas on how to:
- Come up with fun interactive event ideas audiences love
- Create networking opportunities that put attendees at ease
- Drive engagement that generates deep audience insights
- Have fun with your digital event strategy!
- Come with questions, we have answers.
Speakers
Chief Nation
Marketing Breakthroughs: Digital Experiences
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Marketing Breakthroughs: Engagement
How Experiences and Engagement Fuel Great Results
B2B marketers are used to change — from tools and tactics to strategies and campaigns. But there’s one adjustment everyone is still trying to figure out: how to adapt to a digital era of engagement. The short answer? Focus on digital engagement.But if you want the details — the long answer — then join us as Adobe’s Senior Manager of Audience and Data Technologies, Steve Allison, sits down with ON24’s Digital Platform Solutions Specialist, Matt Downes, to discuss how digital experiences help marketers to keep up with change and engage audiences globally. In this session you’ll learn how:
- 2020 redefined digital marketing and audience experience
- Marketers can capitalise on change and create amazing experiences
- Tips and tricks to global collaboration and broadening audience reach
Speakers
Adobe
Marketing Breakthroughs: Engagement
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Marketing Breakthroughs: Localisation
Going Global: How to Create Local Experiences for Regional Audiences
When one of your campaigns has performed brilliantly in one region, it shouldn’t be surprising that you’re asked to replicate it in another market — particularly if your colleagues in international offices don’t have the same resources you do. After all, now that buying decisions are online, it’s easy to think that reaching new markets is no big deal.
In reality, international marketing is far from easy. A programme that drives a ton of business in one market can easily fall flat in another. Worse still, you may even damage your brand or scupper existing deals. So what are the steps you should follow before you simply copy and paste your marketing and promote it in another part of the world?
Join experts from ON24, NetLine and Iron Horse to learn how you can successfully scale your B2B marketing in new markets and avoid the common yet hard-to-see pitfalls of international marketing. In this session you’ll discover:
- How to recalibrate your targeting based on regional characteristics.
- Why great localisation is much more than translation.
- The cultural considerations that make local buying processes very different.
- The actionable steps you should follow before running your existing campaigns in new markets.
Speakers
Netline, IronHorse
Marketing Breakthroughs: Localisation
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Marketing Breakthroughs: Personlisation
Getting More From Personalised Marketing with Pardot and ON24
This year has forced marketers to adjust their event strategies and start creating digital experiences capable of generating the leads our cancelled in-person events ALMOST cost us. For many, this shift began as a temporary fix, but companies industry-wide are already preparing for a new digital-first future. So how can we continue to reimagine virtual-event engagement to keep our funnels fed, and our financials flowing?
Pardot and ON24 will partner to show you how to create an effective digital-event strategy that drives engagement and generates the actionable insights you need to turn leads into revenue. In this session you’ll learn how to:
- Increase digital-event engagement
- Use that engagement to track digital-buying signals
- Deliver personalised experiences that create meaningful connections
- Create relevant content journeys for target accounts
Speakers
Salesforce Pardot
Marketing Breakthroughs: Personlisation
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Marketing Breakthroughs: RevOps
3 Steps to Rev Up Your Sales and Marketing
Marketing success requires the right combination of people and process. Join us as panelists from Leandata, 6sense, Allocadia discuss how marketers can set new Revenue Operations habits to orchestrate, automate and yield greater ROI from your digital campaigns.
Key takeaways include:
- Create and execute effective sales enablement strategies
- Fine tune the sales lead handoff process
- Reach and influence leads with right-time, right-place messaging
- Map buyers to stages of the buying journey and track the success of every marketing touchpoint
Speakers
LeanData, 6sense, Allocadia
Marketing Breakthroughs: RevOps
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Marketing Breakthroughs: Sales Alignment
No “I” in Revenue Team: 5 Steps for A Full-Funnel Sales and Marketing Strategy
Now that all sales and marketing is digital, having an integrated, collaborative strategy is table stakes for revenue growth. But what does that new revenue team look like in action? And how do you coordinate full-funnel campaign execution without getting in each other’s way? In this session you’ll learn best practices for partnership and pipeline building from the heads of marketing and sales development from both ON24 and Cognism, including:
- Processes for account prioritization and contact acquisition
- Playbooks for parallel inbound/outbound programs that engage, nurture and accelerate leads
- Tactics for driving pushes and incentive offers to book more prospect meetings
- Methodologies for measuring impact and attribution outside of the MQL
- Operations to put in place for scale
Speakers
Cognism
Marketing Breakthroughs: Sales Alignment
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Speakers

Kate Doyle
Sr. Marketing Manager, Adobe

Steve Allison
Head of Product Marketing, Audiences & Data Technologies - EMEA, Adobe

Craig McCartney
Managing Director & Co-Owner, Chief Nation

Virginie Maillet
Sr. Marketing Manager - ABM, Citrix

Alice de Courcy
Chief Marketing Officer, Cognism

David Bentham
Inside Sales Director, Cognism

Jay Famico
Chief Research Officer, Iron Horse

Robin Caller
CEO, LeadScale

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Ann Handley
Chief Content Officer, MarketingProfs

David Fortino
Chief Strategy Officer, Netline

Cheri Keith
Head of Strategy, ON24

Emily Smith
Marketing Director, EMEA, ON24

Mark Bornstein
VP of Content Marketing, ON24

Molly Presby
VP of Global Business Development, ON24

Matt Downes
Platform Solutions Specialist - EMEA, ON24

Ryan Balke
Product Marketing Manager, ON24

Tessa Barron
VP of Marketing, ON24

Jess Pyne
Senior Solution Engineer, Salesforce Pardot

Mike Kostow
SVP & General Manager, Salesforce Pardot

Jesse Walsh
Sr. Marketing Manager, Vidyard